2018 Global Digital Transformation Summit

Conference Background

Digital transformation is not just about making your business digital, but it is about developing an innate drive to create greater ambitions directed towards success. Companies require this transformation to battle the challenges of new expectations, competitors, expansion, increasing revenues, cutting costs and fast changing customers. While all of these factors play a major role, improving the brand reputation and company’s image is also an important factor.

Is your current digital strategy strong enough to make your business stay ahead of your competitors in 2020?

This summit is formulated to enable participants to prepare for this rapid digitalization pace, witness the global business leader’s view on future of digital business and explore trends to build perfect strategies for your digital business. The summit would be a perfect amalgam of case studies, workshops and panel discussions addressing a wide variety of global topics. You would be presented with inexhaustible opportunities to share ideas and opinions over transformation.

Conference Agenda

Keynote 1 | 9:00-9:40

Strategy in the Age of Digital Disruption
Disruption is one of the most popular terms in management today. The surge in interest comes in large part from the dramatic opportunities and threats being created by today’s powerful digital technologies. The cloud now conveniently and inexpensively packages incredible processing power and digital storage, while inexpensive bandwidth and versatile smartphones make digital a ubiquitous part of modern life. The possibilities for new products, services and business models promise to substantially impact almost every sector of the economy even those where digital has already brought important changes.

- Understand how digital can disrupt your industry by transforming the industry value chain, patterns of demand and competitive pressures
- Leverage digital to develop compelling value propositions that allow you to turn disruption from a threat to an opportunity
- Execute on digital strategies by aligning key activities across your organization with new value propositions and by balancing strategic agility for a digital world with the longer-term perspective required to build key resources

Keynote 2 | 9:40-10:40

The Race Against Digital Darwinism: Six Stages of Digital Transformation
Brian Solis | Principal Analyst, Altimeter, Best-selling Author, LinkedIn Influencer (Confirmed)
Digital transformation is a movement progressing without a universal map to guide businesses through proven and productive passages. This leaves organizations pursuing change from a known, safe approach that correlates with “business as usual” practices. Operating within the confines of traditional paradigms without purpose or vision eventually challenges the direction, capacity, and agility for thriving in a digital economy.
After several years of interviewing those helping to drive digital transformation, Brian and his team have identified a series of patterns, components, and processes that form a strong foundation for change

They have organized these elements into six distinct stages:
–Business as Usual
–Present and Active
–Formalized
–Strategic
–Converged
–Innovative and Adaptive

In this session, we will explore how can these phases serve as a digital maturity blueprint to guide purposeful and advantageous digital transformation.

Tea Break & Networking | 10:40-11:10

Panel Discussion | 11:10-12:00

How to Recognize New Patterns of Success? What if I Don't Get This Digital Thing Right?

President for Asia, Honeywell
President, GE Power China
President, A.O. Smith China
Vice President, Suning
President, Redstar Macalline

Lunch Break & Networking | 12:00-13:30

[Track A]: Digital Transformation
Keynote Speech | [ Industrial Enterprise ]  A People-First Perspective on Digital Transformation， Schneider Electric, Hongling
Keynote Speech | [ Retail ]  Digital Transformation Practice，Suning, Yonghui
Keynote Speech | [ Finance ]  Digital Transformation Practice， DBS Bank
Panel Discussion，Become a More Innovative Digital Leader
[Track B]: Digital Marketing
Keynote Speech， Refining Your Marketing Strategy to Enhance Customer Engagement， Sean Gardner | Forbes #1 Social Media Power Influencer, Author
Keynote Speech， How to Transform Digital Customer Experiences for the Connected Customer， Vijay Reddy Gondesi | VP, Head of Innovation COEs - Analytics, Big Data and Digital Transformation, NTT DATA Services
Keynote Speech， Implementing a Data-driven Marketing strategy， IBM
Panel Discussion， Engage and Convert - Implement Successful Digital Strategy
[Track C]: Big Data & Analytics
Keynote Speech， Strategic Analytics: Leverage Analytics to Improve Business Results and Organization Effectiveness
Keynote Speech， How Predictive Analytics Is Transforming Shopping (and Selling!)， Kevin Hartman | Head of Analytics, CG&E, Google
Keynote Speech， AI + Blockchain + Big Data + Cloud Enable New Era of Commerce and New Shopping Experience
Panel Discussion， How to Adapt to New Technologies Set to Disrupt Your Business

About the Speaker

Brian Solis

Principal Analyst, Altimeter, Best-selling Author, LinkedIn Influencer (Confirmed)

Brian studies disruptive technology and its impact on business and society. In his reports, articles and books, he humanizes technology and its impact on business and society to help executives gain new perspectives and insights. Brian’s research explores digital transformation, customer experience and culture 2.0 and "the future of" industries, trends and behavior.
His new book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, explores the importance of experiences and how to design them for customers, employees and human beings everywhere.
His previous best-sellers include, What's the Future of Business (WTF), which explores the landscape of connected consumerism and how business and customer relationships unfold and flourish in four distinct moments of truth. The End of Business as Usual explores the emergence of Generation-C, a new generation of customers and employees and how businesses must adapt to reach them. Engage! is regarded as the industry reference guide for businesses to market, sell and service in the social web.

Sean Gardner

Forbes' #1 Social Media Power Influencer

Sean has been recognized as one of the world's top marketers, writers, A.I. strategists, and social good advocates. He is co-founder of the popular Huffington Post "Twitter Powerhouses Series", which interviewed hundreds of people in diverse fields - technology, business, health, philanthropy, travel, food and more - since 2010, and has been an influential voice in the social media conversation.
Working for Apple Inc. right out of high school, Sean has delivered results for multi-national firms like Huawei, Silicon Valley Bank, Microsoft, Ford, VTB Capital, and Ultimate Software, and non-profits like World Vision, Save the Children, and Charity: Water. He is a board member and digital marketing consultant for the World Communication Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also been a digital volunteer for Giving Tuesday.org since 2012, and has helped the United Nations Foundation promote and expand it to more than 100 countries.
He has been profiled in Entrepreneur, Inc, and Huffington Post for his branding tips and marketing expertise; given live commentary on Bloomberg Media, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and CNN; and his written work has appeared in Fast Company and Buzzfeed. Currently, he is working on his first film with Hollywood actress Rasha Goel, and is completing his next three books which are due later this year.